OMG I WANT LIGHT SABRE LIPSTICK! I would totally do nothing all day but make the noises while putting on lippy.

Depends on the group and the individual. They do tend to collect the believers who are pretty crazy to start with, and they can be extremely black and white about the rules, like not talking to apostates. But i’ve known some lovely people who were also JWs.

My stomach dropped at ‘Since 2013’. Holy shit, it’s been two years and there’s no end in sight. The Commission is systematically going through everyone - churches, schools, kids homes, anyone who had control of or access to children, going back to the fifties - and every couple of weeks there’s a new story, a new…

The operative word there being ‘cities’. Strays in the cities are one thing, massive feral monsters in some of the most inhospitable and inaccessible terrain on the planet is entirely another.

I WANT YOUR KITCHEN! It’s so pretty!

And only technically true. Australia is in the middle of a tectonic plate, so no active volcanoes in the sense of flowing lava, but we do have ‘hot spots’ that could turn into a volcano at any time (geologically speaking, so sometime in the next fifteen million years or so).

Actually, she probably should be wearing a top, but because it’s Australia, not because of anything to do with modesty or sexuality. The Cancer Council makes really cute rashies and swim trunks for kids with SPF ratings for sun protection. Either that or an inch thick layer of sunscreen.

God, yes, olive oil, garlic, salt, sauté till bright green, eat.

Argh! Totally. Just not worth the effort. The only two guys i’ve met lately worth doing, one is a sailor and hasn’t been in the country since January, and the other is a work colleague, and there are little-to-none vibes coming off him that he thinks of me that way, so i’m quite happy to leave well alone.

You have to break the vacuum keeping the jar sealed. Hot water, butter knife, they are all about the seal. If you're really desperate, stab that mother (tho that means you can't use it again). Or buy a jar key (it's like a bottle opener, but big and chunky instead of small and pointy). Almost the first thing I bought…

Is that all? I was waiting for them to conk their heads together and smash the globes into smithereens...

Yup. My grandfather was a pharmacist but my grandma ran the shop. Then when he passed and she was ‘retired’ and her 4 kids had grown up, she ran the local Christian bookstore for 34 years. Mum trained as a nurse which is where she met Dad, she stopped working for babies but picked up shifts whenever dad’s income…

What? Only 7am? Your kitty must really love you.

My first catcall (from a car) was at nine. My first physical harrassment was at ten, a teenager who I crossed paths with regularly walking home from school. The next one, about twelve?, a random dero on the street, I kicked him square in the nads, like my karate sensei taught me, and kept walking. (God bless you,…

I wanted a tattoo with a specific meaning, and the best match I found was a Japanese phrase. It’s accurate, and i’ve had people read it and translate correctly (it’s apparently the same in Japanese and Chinese, pronounced a little differently). But every time someone asks me what it means, I tell them ‘rice and…

Yup, that’s the three. Crombie, Sir Terry Pratchett and Leonard Nimoy. Romance, fantasy and scifi. I have to go cry now. Again.

my relationship both started and ended on St Patrick's Day. Best day ever to commemorate your ex!

Yup. I’ve been seeing docs pretty much at random the last few years, due to moving a lot. If they don’t check my blood pressure after hearing my history (bare minimum for my various conditions and standard procedure for my meds), I don’t go back to them.

The clotting issues always give me the giggles. I’ve been on the pill since I was 18, and antidepressants since I was 20. The pill increases clotting, the antidepressants decrease it, it balances out pretty well.

I'm gonna post a happy.